Re: C&TS - June, 1982 - The Battle of Mud Tunnel.

You can count some of the bents here. As we can see in the attached photo circa 1976 the snowshed didn't cover much of the east leg of they wye (presumably because a snowplow train would usually come from that direction and could easily plow out that leg). The west leg was a different story, as Doug said, the shed continued pretty much to the switch clearance. Also prior to the arrival of the "big engines" there was a turntable on the west leg.

BTW these are all marked out with concrete, uh, markers on the pass itself. Probably a little difficult to see them right now, but they're there.

The photo below was taken in, I believe, 1976. The snowshed was not, uh, "long" for the world and would start to collapse over the next few winters until eventually all that was left was the little bit we see today. At that time, or at least on that day, the souvenir car and open gon were being left at Cumbres and tacked on once the rest of the train arrived from Chama. The helper would cut off and switch the car onto the back of the train as is seen here.



Don



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/17/2017 03:12PM by Don Richter.